The Lower House.

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On Jn^o Galloway & Giles Bill To the honble Speaker
To the Clerk
On Abel Makepeace's Bill To the honble Speaker
To the Clerk

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The House adjourns till to Morrow Morning Eight a Clock

Monday Morning July the 25^th 1726.
The House meets according to Adjournment.
Saturday's Proceedings are read.
Benjamin Tasker Esq^r from the Upper House delivers M^r
Speaker the following Message viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly

July the 25^th 1726
Gentlemen.
His Lordship having given such ample and moving
Reasons to your House tending to the Discharge of our
Demands against the Publick as his Lordship's Councill of
State after the usuall Manner there remains nothing for us
to say further to you on this Head, save the Continuance of
our just Claims against you, for the Arrears due to us which
we hope your prudence will direct you to Discharge.
Sign'd p Order Geo. Plater Cl. Up. H^o

In Answer thereto the following Message is sent to the
Upper House by Cap^t Hooper and Cap^t Harrison viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly July the 25^th 1726.
May it please yo^r Hon^rs
The Reasons the Lord Prop^ry has given us for making You
an Allowance by a Poll Tax as a Councill of State are not
Sufficient to induce us to receed from our former Resolutions.
We therefore Desire that you'l insist no longer upon our
doing it
Signd p Order M Jenifer Cl. Lo. Ho.

They return and say they delivered it.
Philip Lee Esq^r from the Upper House delivers M^r Speaker
The Journall of the Comittee of Accounts thus endorst.

July the 25^th 1726.
Read and assented to by the Upper House of Assembly &
Signd p Order. Geo. Plater Cl. Up. H^o

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